Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most important firms, an 80-year-old electrical-equipment giant called ASEA (pronounced ah-say-ah), which is Sweden's equivalent of General Electric. ASEA not only produces a long list of products that range from giant generators to locomotives, but controls 26 subsidiaries that include Electrolux (vacuum cleaners) and STAL-LAVAL (steam and gas turbines). Sweden's biggest private employer with 32,500 workers, the ASEA group last year had sales of $336 million and earnings of $11.5 million...
...sign-off is There's No Business Like Show Business, meaning to indicate that she's damned glad that a girl named Ethel Zimmerman of the Astoria section of Queens once dropped the Zim, quit her job as a secretary to the president of the B. K. Vacuum Booster-Brake Co., and went into show biz. Standing ovations indicate that other people...
...founded by H. W. Hoover's strong-minded grandfather, who ran a saddle and harness factory in North Canton, Ohio. Despite his comfortable position in saddlery, the elder Hoover foresaw the obsolescence of the horse collar, began experimenting first with horseless-carriage accessories, then with "electric suction sweepers." Vacuum cleaners were by no means new; the first U.S. suction cleaner had been patented in 1869, and seven other models were on the market when the Hoover family began. But the Hoover Co. added an agitation bar to beat the dust out of rugs, leading to a famous old advertising...
...hundred nations, the name Hoover suggests not J. Edgar or Herbert but a vacuum cleaner, and some people use it as a verb as well as a noun. Ohio's 55-year-old Hoover Co., the world's oldest and biggest vacuum-cleaner maker, nowadays is concerned with more than merely cleaning carpets. While vacuums will bring half of this year's expected worldwide sales of $200 million (up 21% from last year), Hoover plants from Australia to Wales have also begun to turn out electric can openers, hair dryers, heaters, washing machines, floor polishers. Driving this...
...atmosphere can spot them 200 million miles away, and the satellite sentries launched last week carry twelve cylindrical X-ray detectors poking out in all directions. Inside the satellites' skins are instruments that will watch for the neutrons and gamma rays that also come from explosions in vacuum...